Results for Mar. 15 (Wed)

Bank of Japan
Financial Markets Department


(100 million yen, percent per annum)
Instrument Amounts of
Competitive
Bid*
Amounts of
Successful
Bid*
Pro-rata
Rate/Yield
Spread**
/Price
Spread***
Non-pro-
rata
Rate/Yield
Spread**
/Price
Spread***
Average
Successful
Bid
Rate/Yield
Spread**
/Price
Spread***
Allocation
on a Pro-
rata Basis
Rate

Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 1 year and up to 3 years) 4,987 4,250 -0.019 -0.009 46.1
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 3 years and up to 5 years) 9,047 5,002 -0.008 -0.005 70.4
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years) 14,342 5,754 -0.002 0.005 17.9
Outright purchases of JGBs(residual maturity of more than 25 years) 2,350 503 0.110 0.116 22.6
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation**** 9,395 9,395 -1.100 -2.445
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation***** 36,496 36,496 -0.350 -0.350
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation 0 0
Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation****** 186 186 -0.350 -0.353
Outright purchases of JGBs (fixed-rate method) (residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years)******* 0 0
Outright purchases of JGBs (fixed-rate method) (residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years)******** 0 0
Outright purchases of JGBs (fixed-rate method) (residual maturity of more than 5 years and up to 10 years)********* 0 0

* For the case of US Dollar Funds-Supplying Operations against Pooled Collateral, the figures are represented in million U.S. dollars.
** These figures represent the yield spreads in Outright purchases of T-Bills, Outright sales of T-Bills, Outright purchases of JGBs (residual maturity of up to 1 year, more than 1 year and up to 5 years, more than 1 year and up to 3 years, more than 3 years and up to 5 years, more than 5 years and up to 10 years, more than 10 years, more than 10 years and up to 25 years, and more than 25 years).
*** These figures represent the price spreads in Outright purchases of JGBs (floating-rate bonds and inflation-indexed bonds) (unit of price spread is yen).
**** The securities sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation were as follows (amount in 100 million yen): 10-year JGB #367 (3,021); #368 (3,179); and #369 (3,195).
***** The securities sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the morning/same-day-start operation were as follows (amount in 100 million yen): 2-year JGB #425 (39); #426 (45); #433 (255); #443 (356); 5-year JGB #146 (427); #155 (1,178); 10-year JGB #350 (166); #351 (559); #352 (372); #353 (231); #354 (1,045); #355 (819); #356 (465); #357 (810); #358 (6,396); #359 (6,261); #360 (4,304); #361 (1,228); #362 (2,437); #363 (2); #364 (1,247); #365 (3,289); #366 (3,760); 20-year JGB #97 (130); #115 (1); #122 (16); #178 (80); 30-year JGB #2 (37); #4 (32); #6 (10); 40-year JGB #6 (496); Inflation-indexed bond #20 (2); and #22 (1).
****** The securities sold through Securities lending facility (Sales of JGSs under repurchase agreements) /offered in the afternoon/same-day-start operation were as follows (amount in 100 million yen): 10-year JGB #357 (124); #366 (43); and 30-year JGB #18 (19).
******* Bonds subject to the Bank's purchases are the three on-the-run issues.
******** The bond subject to the Bank's purchases is 10-year JGB #358.
********* The bond subject to the Bank's purchases is 10-year JGB #359.